PROPERTY developers in control of swathes of Camden Town should pay for festival-style toilets to be deployed every weekend to end the scourge of public urination.

This is the call from residents’ groups who say they are fed-up of drunken revellers relieving themselves in side streets around NW1.

Chris Fagg, vice-chairman of the police liaison group Camden Safer Neighbourhood Board, said: “We have the extraordinary situation of billionaire property developers and music promoters making millions out of the area while the streets are allowed to become a public toilet in the early hours of the morning.”

Billionaire investor Teddy Sagi’s firm Lab Tech has been buying large chunks of Camden Town since 2014, bringing different market areas under single ownership for the first time.

Mr Fagg said: “Isn’t it time Camden shamed Camden Town property developers into paying up for a number of trailer-mounted loo suites of the sort seen at open-air events to be sited around the area at weekends? With users paying a charge via contactless cards these could even be self-financing.”

Pat Thomas, chairwoman of the Harmood Clarence Hartland Residents Association – a collection of streets off Chalk Farm Road – said she backed the proposals. Members of the association routinely oppose new applications for late-night venues, with examples of their objections including streets being “adorned with vomit” and “our children [having to] walk past men urinating next to their homes in the early evening”.

Four “urilift” urinals, which rise from the pavement in the evening, have been installed. The pop-up urinal in Inverness Street was said by the council to be the second-most used in Europe, with 500 visits per week detected by a sensor. But Mr Fagg said they were “ludicrously inadequate for the footfall in Camden Town”, which regularly tops 150,000 on each day of the weekend.

Mark Neal, chairman of the Camden Town with Primrose Hill Safer Neighbourhood Panel, said public urination was the “stinky byproduct of a much wider issue” which saw volunteer residents come up against well-paid licensing lawyers as they attempt to limit the number of late-night venues in the area.

Community safety chief, Councillor Nadia Shah, said the council’s levy on late-opening venues would help pay for new facilities. “We provide a number of temporary urinals in known hotspots in Camden on busy nights – as well as our permanent pop-up urinals in key locations,” she said.

A spokesman for Camden Market said: “We liaise with residents regularly and understand their concerns. We currently have four blocks of toilets across Camden Market, one of which was opened last summer in the North Yard of Stables Market, and we ensure that those toilets nearest to night-time venues are open for use until late night.”